Samuel Prideaux Tregelles was an English biblical scholar and manuscript collator who produced a critically edited Greek New Testament after extensive travel and direct work with witnesses.
Setting: English evangelical and Plymouth Brethren associations.
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles was an English biblical scholar and manuscript collator who produced a critically edited Greek New Testament after extensive travel and direct work with witnesses. He also wrote on the history of the printed Greek text and defended Scripture as objective revelation.
His biography is an important warning against treating the authority-method axis as a simple orthodox-versus-unbelieving division. Tregelles’s doctrine could be conservative while his editorial court remained reconstructive criticism.
Bibliological positions
The original wording should be recovered chiefly from the oldest accessible evidence, with the Textus Receptus excluded as an editorial authority. Scripture remains divine revelation despite transmissional variation.
Qualifications and disputes
His edition appeared in parts and suffered interruption through illness; edition history matters.
His place relative to Burgon and Scrivener is frequently simplified into personal or party labels.
Sources
- Internet Archive creator search — Public-domain works and editions
Principal works
- An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament (1854); legacy
WRK-1114; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
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- Record
- PER-3079
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
Links from this record
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Records that cite or connect here
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Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “Samuel Prideaux Tregelles,” PER-3079, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas